Re: How did they get the Gemini-Rogallo test vehicle airborne? [Re: Big G Gemini Question]

From: DHE (DHE_at_NOT.VALID.com)
Date: 11/18/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 03:34:50 GMT

"Pat Flannery" <flanner@daktel.com> wrote in message
news:10pma7osj9vnn5f@corp.supernews.com...
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> OM wrote:
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> >...Remember that the 1/48th was planograph reduced from the 1/24th, as
> >with most of Revell's space kits. The sole exception I can recall was
> >the 1/24th really awful Block I CSM stack, which deviated from the
> >produced-far-more-than-should-be-legally-allowed CSM "Over The
> >Rainbow" 1/96 CSM stack.
> >
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> Uh...OM.... the big Revell CSM was in 1/48th scale; not 1/24th.
> And the 1/48th scale Mercury/Gemini combo kit predated the 1/24th scale
> Gemini by years.
> The 1/24th scale Gemini kit/Gemini mockup contest was around 1967,
> according to this:
> http://www.clothmonkey.com/gemini.htm
> The only other 1/24th scale spacecraft they did was Vostok; why they
> never did a Mercury is beyond me.
> My current dilemma is determine how exactly I acquired the Friendship 7
> patch- the Molly Brown and Liberty Bell 7 patches came with the Gus
> Grissom Memorial Mercury/Gemini set, but where the hell did the Glenn
> patch come from? The Mercury/Atlas set?
>
> Pat
>

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